At $17,085 per pupil, Diagonal Comm School District ranks #16 of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending (Iowa districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
130
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$17,085
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Diagonal Comm School District operates 2 public schools serving 130 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Iowa. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Ringgold County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $17,085 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 33 of 327 Iowa districts by per-pupil spending. See how Iowa compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 45.0% local, 37.6% state, and 17.4% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one.
a 397.9:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 19.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 100.0% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Diagonal Elementary School, enrolling 58 students (53% of the district's total enrollment).
Diagonal Elementary School accounts for 44.6% of all Diagonal Comm School District student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Diagonal Comm School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Diagonal Comm School District student-counselor ratio is 398:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Diagonal Comm School District chronic absenteeism rate is 19.7% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Diagonal Comm School District is typically wider than the Diagonal Comm School District-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Diagonal Comm School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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